Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

OK, gotta get ready & then get off to the Sky Poker - Sky Bingo Quiz Night, in Teddington, not far from here.

It's a sort of "thank you" from Management, because Sky Poker Channel 846 got nominated for an Interactive Emmy, & got the Sky Sports Simulcast Deal. The Invite says "slippers optional". They are all a bit mad here, trust me.

Teams are....

Team Club (The Club)

Aces Eggs

tikay's Terminators

People Under The Stairs

Divas

BingoBanjees

Studio Floorskins

The Mild Bunch

T-Force

The Magic 100

The Leftovers

It's 9/4 tikay's Terminators, (Orford, Orpey, James Taylor, moi), 8/1 bar. We are nailed on. We gonna do a Linton on 'em.

Rigged.

[tikay]

There were two Questions in tonight's Quiz which particularly intrigued me.

One - very easy - was what is the only Town in the UK with an exclamation mark - clearly & easily, "Westward Ho!". But I wonder how that "!" came about, & how it became accepted by all, including cartographers?

The other question, which I thought was a corker, was "name the only word in the English Dictionary that ends with the letters mt"? It bugged me big time that I could not figure it out.

[77dave]

i know and i know what it means

they had a question on it on QI.  Jo Brand gave an example of this type of word    her answer was Scunthorpe.

[77dave]

Stephen Fry's answer

abso - bloody - lutely

[Moskvich]

Stephen Fry's answer

abso - bloody - lutely

Isn't this tmesis..? It would end in mt if you spelled it backwards... 

[thetank]

The answer may come to you in the middle of the night. When you are past being tense.

[tikay]

The answer may come to you in the middle of the night. When you are past being tense.

Correct. Who'd have - err - thunk it.

Good question, I thought.

[kinboshi]

The answer may come to you in the middle of the night. When you are past being tense.

Can you help with 7-down as well please?

[Rod Paradise]

Dredfully sad that Humphrey Lyttleton - "Humph" - passsed away today, after Surgery.

He was nearly 87.

He'd Presented "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" for 35 years, & was, arguably, the funniest man on Radio. He never told jokes, he was just "dry", & sometimes, innocently near the knuckle.

I'm not sure ISIHAC can continue in his absence, he is irreplaceable. The Spring Series had already been cancellled after Humph entered Hossie. I think they knew the end was nigh.

He had a 30 year "running joke" about ISIHAC's Scorer, "the lovely Samantha". I'm not sure Samantha even existed.

He wrote 14 books, mostly about Jazz, at which he was something of a legend. His Radio Show "Best of Jazz" ran unbroken for 40 years, until he stepped down last year. Best of Jazz, & ISIHAC, ran, between them, for 75 years, an extraordinary record of longevity by any criteria.

He recorded over 200 records, & when performing with his Band, which he did for 60 years, he generally introduced his biggest selling piece - "Bad Penny Blues" - as "a medley of my hit".

On "looking him up" today, I found that he was President of a rather unusual Society - "The Society for Italic Handwriting", & his Record Company was named in it's honour - "Calligraph".

A very sad loss.

From the Glasgow Herald today:

Apple of his eye

THE late Humphrey Lyttelton will be sadly missed from Radio 4 where his deadpan, but always courteous, delivery hid some of the most excruciating doubles entendres ever to be uttered on the sedate BBC.

He once said of his fictitious assistant, Samantha: "She has to nip off to the National Opera where she's been giving private tuition to the singers. Having seen what she did to the baritone, the director is keen to see what she might do for a tenor."

[gatso]

there're at least 2 words that end in -mt. there's the easy one and we can also add 'un' to the start of it to get a less common but perfectly acceptable word

[Claw75]

there're at least 2 words that end in -mt. there's the easy one and we can also add 'un' to the start of it to get a less common but perfectly acceptable word

How can you undream something?

[77dave]

There were two Questions in tonight's Quiz which particularly intrigued me.

One - very easy - was what is the only Town in the UK with an exclamation mark - clearly & easily, "Westward Ho!". But I wonder how that "!" came about, & how it became accepted by all, including cartographers?

The other question, which I thought was a corker, was "name the only word in the English Dictionary that ends with the letters mt"? It bugged me big time that I could not figure it out.

i completly misread Tikays post.

the word im was refering to is the only word in the english dictionary that begins with the letters TM

[gatso]

there're at least 2 words that end in -mt. there's the easy one and we can also add 'un' to the start of it to get a less common but perfectly acceptable word

How can you undream something?

you can't, that's not what it means.

it means beyond the imagination e.g. undreampt of wealth

[Josedinho]

there're at least 2 words that end in -mt. there's the easy one and we can also add 'un' to the start of it to get a less common but perfectly acceptable word

How can you undream something?

you can't, that's not what it means.

it means beyond the imagination e.g. undreampt of wealth

So it ends in pt?

[Jon MW]

As well as dreamt and undreamt there is also adreamt